Course Title: Engage in the business of creative practice

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6160 Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting

Course Title: Engage in the business of creative practice

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 70

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Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM8795C	City Campus	TAFE	345T Media and Communication	Face-to-Face	Term2 2019
BUSM8795C	City Campus	TAFE	375T Vocational Design and Social Context	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2020, Term2 2021
BUSM8795C	City Campus	TAFE	515T Creative Industries	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2022, Term1 2023

Course Contact: Alan Woodruff

Course Contact Phone: +61399254307

Course Contact Email: alan.woodruff@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This course will build on the industry-focussed skills you've learned and practised across the program, further assisting you to market yourself as a screenwriting professional. You will research and focus upon the wider screenwriting industry, skilling up for a successful career. You will fashion your own personal development and business development plans to help sell yourself and your writing projects, and lay the business foundations for your screenwriting-related practice.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enrolment in this core course at RMIT requires you to have completed all first year courses.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	CUAPPR603 Engage in the business of creative practice
Elements:	1. Develop and apply professional work practices 2. Evaluate different business practices 3. Address financial aspects of creative practice 4. Analyse the rights and obligations of creative practitioners 5. Evaluate professional opportunities

Learning Outcomes

This unit equips you to approach the business aspects of working as a creative practitioner in a professional manner.

You will have the skills to operate as a sole practitioner, in writers' cooperatives, or as freelance or contract workers. Regardless of the business model, all practitioners earning income from their practice engage with the professional business requirements for a sustainable creative practice. You will be able to plan and profit from your work as a freelance writer, or as an employee in a small or large organisation.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment is ongoing throughout the course. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, development of personal and business development plans, and through the application of learned skills and insights to industry research, culminating in your practical vision for your own screenwriting practice.